Re: Bernie Sanders Should Team With Jill Stein and Run Green Party Instead of Endorsi
But everything else in your post proves that the highlighted section is impossible.
So if we can't change anything with votes, how do we change it? I can think of a few ways but I want to hear it from you, since you are one of the awoken few who can actually see what the **** is going on.
Also, since you are doing a better job of explaining it than I (the thread title is merely (what I THOUGHT to be) the most appealing solution to the average American - the Partisans) I feel like your presence here can at the very least aid in the awakening of the majority of the people on DP (who are very much NOT awoken)...
Thanks for the compliment. I think it is possible, but highly improbable. First any third party wanting to become viable must first forget about the presidency, the senate and even the House of Representative. Concentrate on the grass roots level. Getting people elected to city councils, state house and senates, local level. It is the state legislatures that write the election laws for any particular state. To be successful on the national level, those state laws have to be changed. Things like what it takes to get on the ballot, Republican and Democratic parties have automatic ballot access. They do not have to do a thing. Everyone else has to jump through hoops.
If enough third party people get elected to the state legislatures, they can influence election laws and things like gerrymandering. In any given election only around 35 house seats are actually at risk for changing parties. The rest are safe. Only then start thinking about the national level, first the house and then the senate. Keep in mind all those moneyed folks will be against you. They have a vested interest along with the Republican and Democratic Party in keeping any third party from becoming viable. Now they split they money two ways and they get a huge return for their investments, donations they call it. Corporations, Wall Street, lobbyists, special interests do not want to add a third party to their initial outlay. They love the status quo. They have the two major parties right where they want them. Both parties owe them big them and they know it.
It may take 10 or 20 years to accomplish. If someone like Ross Perot or a John Anderson were to run today, in 2016 with the assets they had, I am sure they would win. This election season was ripe for a well healed third party candidate to win the white house.
Several years ago I did up a paper on what it would take for an independent to win the white house. Here it is: Keep in mind it has really nothing to do with establishing a viable third party, but how an independent could win the white house.
Having worked for Ross Perot, an independent candidate for president here is the criteria for an independent to win the White House.
1. Must be charismatic
2. Must have a message that resonates with the people that the two major parties are not addressing or it seems they are not addressing
3. Must have a vision where he wants to lead America
4. Must have common sense solutions to problems that the two major parties are not attempting to solve or are putting off
5. Must be independently wealthy.
A. This is due to the two existing parties write all election laws as a mutual protection act. The independent candidate will need to expand millions to get on the ballot by challenging a lot of these laws state by state.
B. The independent candidate will need to pay petitioners to get the required signatures for ballot access as described by the different laws of all the different states.
C. Due to the fact that corporations, lobbyists, Wall Street firms, Special Interests super pacs and pacs, huge money individuals etc. who all donate to the campaigns of the two major parties the independent candidate will not have access to he will have expand a huge amount of his own money to get his own message out.
6. There has to be a feeling among the electorate that the two major parties are out for themselves and not America. The electorate needs to be disgusted with both major parties.
Too bad we do not have someone like that. The disgust of the majority of Americans is there especially since our two major parties gave us Trump and Clinton.
